The Chiefs Eat the L

The Giants are now 2-0 in games against the AFC West when the team is coming off a bye. With these important factors being the deciders the Giants are now destined to go 2-14. Great stuff!

The fabled “Andy Reid after a bye week” mystique is officially over. This was the Chiefs worst game of the season. The team that beat the Patriots in week 1 no longer appears to exist. The mighty defensive line was held in check by the Giants patchwork line (which has honestly improved as of late). The Giants defense played genuine inspired football, making my previous comic immediately wrong. The offense still sucked, but a lot of it was on Darkwa and Gallman not catching passes. Shepard wasn’t playing so the team had to rely on the practice squaders. Roger Lewis ended up making the catch of the game and probably of the season on the game winning overtime drive.

I still can’t believe 3 different players threw an interception in that game and none of them were named Eli Manning. Even as a massive Eli apologist that astounded me. Just trash gameplans from both teams. I was flipping between the Giants/Chiefs and the Skins/Saints and it was essentially like watching Goofus and Gallant of football quality. One game was outstanding in every way, and the other was a war crime.

The Chiefs have really slowed up. After beating a serious group of quality teams (Pats, Eagles, Chargers, Watson Texans, and the Skins, who are all okay to great teams) the Chiefs have slid off a cliff against average competition. I actually think the Chargers might be a dark horse to come out of nowhere and make the playoffs. I think people have written LA off but they look capable. 2 wins behind the Chiefs and closing fast. I don’t pay close enough attention to KC to know really the extent of the problem, seems like a secondary issue and Andy Reid getting too cute with Alex reverting back to regular checkdown Alex. Chiefs fans feel free to explain the problems in the comments, I’m curious.

How would fantasy football insurance even work? Do you pay them to cover your prize pool fee? Because I’m not sure who would spend money to make sure they don’t lose the $5 they spent for their league that year.

Smith went from elite, to one of the worst QBs in the NFL after they played the Steelers. Smith can’t beat cover 2 zone, and Reid has no answer. Teams can key on Hunt all day and Smith just sits back there and jitters till he either runs or throws a check-down. The defense has been bad all year, no pass rush, no secondary and bad run defense. Basically they’ve done nothing well. Most fans expected the defense to allow more than 9, all fans expected the offense to score more than 9.

That about sums it up. They’ve failed on basically every level. I can’t figure out how Smith, a 12 year veteran can’t decipher a zone defense.

Also, the stats on how the team does when Wilson and Conley are out are pretty alarming. I knew Conley was an important, if not extremely underrated player, but I didn’t think we’d shut down without him.

Smith was really tearing it up earlier this season, and through week 6 had the best quarterbacking stats in the league. I genuinely thought that he deserved MVP at that point. However he’s stunk it up two of his last three games, and with the chiefs nose diving now, the only legitimate candidates I see are Wentz and Brady…

It seems like Reid is scared of running Hunt into a rookie wall. I think he has fewer than 20 carries per game the last 6 weeks. This means either Alex is back there airing it out 40+ times a week, or they’re running trick plays and WR reverses and shovel passes to Kelce. That’s not the recipe for this team to win, especially now that everyone knows they’re coming. It doesn’t help that Reid is somehow incapable of drawing up a way to beat Cover 2 with two full weeks of preparation.

On top of that, we’re being penalized 10 times a game. Our defensive backs can’t stop the bombs, and when they do, the ball bounces off their arm and gets caught and run in for a touchdown anyway. The only pass rusher of worth we have is Justin Houston; no one else on the DL can get any pressure on the QB besides Dee Ford, and he’s injured. Our offensive line is worn out and beat up because we have no depth, so Hunt can’t find any more holes to break through because there is none. Also, they’re so leaky in the pass protection that Alex sees ghosts in the pocket and panics every time he has the ball for more than 3 seconds. Which happens a lot because two of our top three WR’s are out for the season. Our second-best WR now is DeMarcus Robinson. This results in Alex staring down Kelce every time he drops back because he’s the only target he can reliably hit.

Somehow I think this one was drawn by someone else than Dave. I’m no expert, but… It seemed very slightly different for the Goodell vs. Jerry comic, not worth mentioning, but the difference seems very blatant in this one. Squiggly lines and everything.

Just a thought.

Or maybe Dave just drew this while sleepy, drunk or preoccupied so it’s a one-time thing, or it’s all in my imagination and I’m overly sensitive about nothing :l